Photography Archive

There was a time when you needed a state-of-the-art DSLR camera to take gorgeous pictures. That slowly started to change, with more photographers adopting the iPhone. None were as prominent as professional sports photographer Brad Mangin. He spent more than 20 years photographing everything from the World Series to the Superbowl, utilizing his trusty DSLR each time. Brad recently made the switch to the iPhone, …

Review: Portrait Retouching Software I really do not like opening a piece of software and then spending hours having to learn how to do the most basic of tasks. Very often, I know what I want as the outcome for my shots but do not want to spend all day getting there. Recently, after spend seemingly hours digging around the internet and trying various tools …

Canon EOS M50 This review is my opinion of the mirrorless offering from Canon, the Canon EOS M50. I will not go into all the specs and all amazing materials it is made from but here is a link if you want to know the all the details. This review is from the point of view of me actually using this camera for the last …

Documentary Photography The world we live in is full of stories, from war zones to migrating animals. Every day, newspapers are filled with articles showing the struggles of life or a beached pod of whales somewhere in the world, and all of these stories have photographs and ‘The Story’. Documentary photography, as the words say is documenting the story with photographs. Words and text and …

Spring, the miracle of nature Spring has finally arrived in the South of the UK. After what seems like a very cold and wet winter, the middle of April has seen a sudden change and nature is coming to life with the animals busy collecting nesting materials and people generally have a spring in their step. All good really. My garden has been overwhelmed with …

The Long Weekend Easter weekend, four days of travel in and around the Sussex countryside capturing and exploring. The weather held off on the Easter Sunday to let me sit in the middle of the Ashdown Forest with a nice picnic and explore. For those of you who do not know, Ashdown Forest is the home to Winnie the Pooh and his creator past, AA …

Slow Shutter-Speeds Let us add some creativity to our photography with some dreamy feelings or a completely different view on something, maybe a river or a car night adding the feeling of a slow effect, like time slowing down. What can we do to take our skills a little bit further?

The Photo Dictionary Very often we see words and acronyms in photography so I hope this photography dictionary can explain and help a bit in deciphering the photo language. I will add more continuously over time. Any requests for words to add to the dictionary, contact me.

A camera, ideas, and warmth, a vintage day out The UK does have a thing when it comes to collecting of vintage objects from past times, whether it is war memorabilia down at Dover Castle or works of art dotted all over the UK, there are collections everywhere. I will not say that I understand why, but I definitely enjoy photographing old objects.

I am not a fan of hobbies, sports, and activities that use huge complicated words to mask certain techniques. I feel it acts as a barrier to newcomers to photography and I do not like it. In this article, we are going to talk about how we can focus on two objects or more to the point, how we can get a good focus on …